L Takanashi

6 days ago | businessoffashion.com | L Takanashi

Resale platforms are grappling with the best sort of problem to have: how to manage a surge in new shoppers. While US trade policies roil the fashion industry at large, resale is welcoming a flood of “tariff-ied” new customers. On Monday, resale marketplace ThredUp reported that the number of new buyers on its platform in the first quarter rose 95 percent compared to last year, marking the largest quarterly increase in new customers in the company’s history.

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | L Takanashi

Reebok is building up its team as it returns to the basketball court. The sportswear brand announced Tuesday that it named Jide Osifeso its new head of basketball.

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | L Takanashi

Last Saturday morning, 1,000 frenzied customers rushed to form a line outside a middle school in East Harlem, some tossing aside rented Citi Bikes with the fare meters still running to get a ticket to enter a classroom that had been taken over by UK streetwear label Corteiz.

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | L Takanashi

The fashion industry is going to have to learn the real meaning of community in 2025. Even before US president Donald Trump’s tariffs roiled global markets and generated widespread uncertainty, executives saw consumer confidence and appetite to spend as the greatest risks to fashion’s growth, according to The State of Fashion 2025 by The Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company.

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | L Takanashi

Papo2oo4’s discography sounds like an old DJ Whoo Kid tape unearthed inside the case for a NBA Street video game. Since the late 2010s, the New Jersey rapper has revisited a bygone era of East Coast mixtape rap that younger generations are more likely to encounter in a Dipset-themed Instagram moodboard than on DatPiff. Perhaps that’s why Papaholic, Vol.